emalvick;615516 Wrote: > I have had similar problems in the past and as others have alluded to, > it is easy to "break" a multidisk set to the point where I've quit > trying to fix things before MP3Tag (EAC earlier, DBPoweramp now). > > I've essentially written an Action in MP3Tag that looks at items such > as Discnumber, Album Title, etc and rewrites the tags to match a > > Track = 101, 201, etc. style like others have mentioned based on the > highest disc number (so that 4 digits will show up if I'm up to 10 > discs).
Keep in mind that with Squeezebox Server, if you're tagging all files with their correct DISCNUMBER then this is unnecessary. Tracks for an album will always be sorted by DISCNUMBER/TRACKNUMBER. Only if you don't add DISCNUMBER to multi-disc sets does it becomes necessary for correct track ordering. > Discnum = 1 (set to the same for all tracks). I used to eliminated > Discnum but some other software kept occasionally writing a Discnum tag > to the occasional track if it wasn't there, so I've kept it there for > everything. Unfortunately, this can lead to some ugliness in Squeezebox Server if you use a TITLEFORMAT that includes the disc number. For instance, if your TITLEFORMAT were DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE (DURATION) then a track listing for a single disc set will be displayed (for example): 1-1. Grantstand (9:09) 1-2. My Funny Valentine (9:08) 1-3. Blues In Maude's Flat (15:04) 1-4. Old Folks (4:12) 1-5. Green's Greenery (5:11) I would never allow any software to alter tagging without doing so explicitly with your knowledge. Set all files to read-only if you have to. > Replaygain-Album = "max" of all replay gain album values to keep them > consistent amongs the whole set. I've never done this, so I know REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN it isn't used in determining multi-disc sets in SBS. I suppose its a matter of personal preference whether album gain should be across all discs in a multi-disc set. I've considered doing it myself, but I don't think it can be automated in Mp3tag, since when working on a particular file, it doesn't see tag values from other files. If I decide to do it, I'd probably create a VBScript to use Metaflac and find the max album values and apply them to all files on the album. > Album = Title - most multidisc sets will have a (disc 1), etc. tag, so I > remove that part and make sure they are all the same > > etc... Sounds like a lot of work, but by using an action I've set it up > once (and tweaked it a handful of times since) to make it work in MP3Tag > everytime with one click. > > The MP3Tag forums are great for help with creating actions. I actually do very little in Mp3Tag for multi-disc sets other than to manually set DISCNUMBER and TOTALDISCS (which isn't used by SBS) in a couple of custom fields in the Tag Panel, plus make sure that the same album name is applied to all files in the album. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85925 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
